• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Little brother rides the TXC511 redux

oregonsage

oregonsage

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Last year I persuaded my younger brother Mark (this is a relative term, he's 52) to ride the Washougal WORCS race on my 2011 TXC511. His current ride is a 250 2 stroke of a strange orange hue. The man is freaking fast and the current holder of the #1 50 Expert OMRA GP plate. Well, he was not impressed with the 511 at Washougal. He got around fine but fought it all the way and ended up with a flat front tire... strangely the same tire I had flattened when I broke my wrist a couple months before...hmm.

Fast forward 9 months... TXC511 now has the JD 6X with standard settings installed just after that WORCS race, a new front tire...turns out the bead was broken on the old one so no wonder it was squirrely...and just last week Bill at BMP Husqvarna in Salem did the 2012 shock lowering trick. Other than that, same bike.

To prepare for the Funky Chicken we headed out east of LaPine, OR to weave around the jackpine forests and climb a few hills with both my TE250 and the TXC. A nice combination of high speed straights and sweepers, several modest hills and lots of twisty turnys through the woods. Greased Lightning (aka Mark) rode the 511 first. We did a dozen miles and then stopped to wait for me to bring up the rear. Before I could ask Mark says .....THIS THING IS FREAKING AWESOME... its fast, the powerband is incredible, the throttle response is perfect, it turns great, it tracks great... WOW ****************************************!!

So I says..."you wanted to ride the 250?" "Well, sure I will give it a try" He spent an hour on the 250, trying to get the hang of keeping it at 8000 rpm and up and started to have a pretty good time. But eventually he said "can I have the 511 back?"

Greased Lightning will be riding the Funky Chicken this year on a bike with a certain stunning shade of RED

Graffunder and Greased Lightning at the Funky Chicken...has a nice ring to it.
 
I see that Bill from Bill's Motorcycles Plus plans to make the Funky Chicken too...Ive seen him ride and he knows how to get around in the woods pretty well for an old guy.
I love seeing more red bikes and gunsights on the line **************************************** How about a 1-2 finish in 50 Expert from Mark and Bill...now that would be a great sight to see. Maybe Roessler isnt busy and he can help round out the top 3 !!
 
turns out the bead was broken on the old one so no wonder it was squirrely
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Just curious what front tire that was as one of my buddies experienced a broken bead last weekend that resulted in a very poor race for him as well.
 
You can break the bead on any tire, it is from not lubing the tire enough and not getting the far side deep into the groove so you have to use to much tire iron pressure to get it over the rim.
 
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